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Google Quietly Rolls Out An iPad Version Of Inbox
Feb 19, 8:00AM
Inbox by Gmail (Google’s still-invite-only email client) seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it sort of thing, but in case you happen to fall in the “love it” camp and use an iPad: good news! Inbox is getting a proper iPad app. Read MoreLenovo PCs Shipping With Adware That Poses Serious Security Threat
Feb 19, 6:46AM
Lenovo is in hot water today after potentially significant security breach was found to affect its consumer PC range. Read MoreScanadu's New Pee Stick Puts The Medical Lab On Your Smartphone
Feb 19, 12:06AM
Health tech startup Scanadu is working on the cutting-edge of a new type of medical technology that could one day put the hospital in the palm of our hands. It just started shipping its first product Scout, a device that can detect your temperature, blood pressure and other biological phenomenon and then upload that information into an app. Read MoreXiaomi's Mi Note Is A Great Phone You'll Probably Never Get To Buy
Feb 18, 11:50PM
Last week Chinese electronics company Xiaomi gave Western media an in-depth look at its products and business model. From its phones and the Android variant that powers them to its ambitions in the smart home of the future, Xiaomi demonstrated its approach to capturing the demand for premium gadgets while costing less than industry leaders like Apple and Samsung. As reporters shuffled out of… Read MoreAfter Relaunching As A Full-Service Accounting Startup, inDinero Raises Another $7M
Feb 18, 11:39PM
Hey, remember inDinero? We covered the Y Combinator-incubated company a couple times back in 2010, when it was trying to build a Mint-style service for small businesses and raised $1.2 million in seed funding. Well, co-founder and CEO Jessica Mah told me that in the years since, the company nearly ran out of money, laid off all its employees, and switched to a new model. But it seems to… Read MoreDespite What The FCC Says, Some Carriers Still Make It Hard To Unlock Your Phone
Feb 18, 11:32PM
Over the past week, a number of headlines have trumpeted a big victory over the notoriously bad practices of big U.S. mobile carriers when it comes to unlocking phones. But one digital rights activist and researcher says that things aren’t quite as rosy as they might seem. The backstory is this: It’s been completely legal for people to unlock their phones for months now, but… Read MoreYouTube Looks To Provide More Support For Top Partners
Feb 18, 11:27PM
YouTube is the leader in ad-supported video online, but there are always new ways it can work with its content partners. Today at the CODE/Media Conference in Southern California, YouTube content head Robert Kyncl said top partners will receive benefits to help them out. Read MoreSkyGiraffe Raises $3M More To Help Companies Build Mobile Apps
Feb 18, 11:09PM
SkyGiraffe, a startup that helps companies quickly build and deploy apps, has raised a $3 million Series A round of capital, led by Trilogy Equity Partners. Prior investor 500 Startups participated in the capital event. Trilogy, unsurprisingly, picked a board seat as part of the round. The market that SkyGiraffe focused on, custom apps for businesses, is a hot space at the moment. Earlier… Read MoreCoVenture Raises $3M To Build Software For Startups
Feb 18, 11:01PM
Co-founder and general partner Ali Hamed describes his firm CoVenture as “a new type of venture firm, a service-focused firm” — and he’s announcing that it’s raised $3 million in funding. For the most part, the money won’t go directly into startups, but rather to funding CoVenture’s operations. Hamed told me the firm employs 55 developers and designers… Read MoreSamsung Wants To Build LoopPay Into Devices, And To Build A Holistic Mobile Wallet
Feb 18, 10:47PM
Samsung will acquire LoopPay, the companies announced today, and TechCrunch spoke with LoopPay CEO Will Graylin, Samsung Innovation Center EVP David Eun and Dr. Injong Rhee, EVP and head of Samsung Mobile about the smartphone maker’s plans for its new asset, as well as LoopPay’s tech and approach to mobile payments. Read MoreTechnology Predictions For The Second Half Of The Decade
Feb 18, 10:00PM
Around this time of year, we start to see predictions about technology innovations we can expect to see in the 12 months ahead. As 2015 actually marks the halfway point through the decade, let’s take a longer-term look at the breakthroughs we’ve seen in the first half of the 2010s, and what those may make possible in the second half. Read MoreOn The Way To An IPO, Education Technology Startup Instructure Is Close To Raising A Big New Round
Feb 18, 9:38PM
Education technology company Instructure has raised a big new round on its way to an initial public offering later this year, according to several sources familiar with the company’s plans. We’ve heard rumors from multiple sources that the cloud-based K-12 and higher education platform is raising between $50 to $70 million in Series E funding, while one source put the low end of… Read MoreMedium Founder Ev Williams Wants Better Metrics For Online Companies
Feb 18, 9:06PM
Ev Williams thinks Internet companies should be judged on more than just their monthly active user numbers. In an interview this morning at the CODE/Media conference, the founder of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium said there are other metrics those companies and their investors should be paying attention to. “I think a lot of the Internet and tech coverage of the Internet focuses on a… Read MoreTechCrunch Is Headed To Atlanta And Boston In A Week
Feb 18, 9:05PM
Each year, we visit the beautiful city of Atlanta, and each year, we walk away more impressed than the year before. The same is true of Boston — we visit in the depths of winter, and still Boston startups trek out to show their stuff. Next week, we’ll visit these amazing cities once again with hopes to discover the best new technology out there. The goal is to bring the… Read MoreSamsung Acquires LoopPay, Maker Of An Apple Pay Competitor
Feb 18, 8:43PM
Samsung has acquired LoopPay, the companies announced today. The acquisition confirms earlier rumors that suggested the two were working closely together on an upcoming project, and suggests Samsung could make use of LoopPay’s technology to offer is own Apple Pay competitor on future devices. LoopPay even advertises its solution as an alternative to Apple Pay for non-Apple device makers,… Read MoreMicrosoft's JavaScript Engine Will Soon Support Mozilla's Asm.js
Feb 18, 8:39PM
Over the last few years, Mozilla has developed asm.js, a subset of JavaScript that can be executed fast. Until now, asm.js optimization was only available in Firefox. But soon this technology will also be available in Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine in the upcoming Windows 10. As the company today announced, asm.js support has long been one of the top 10 most-requested features… Read MoreGoogle's 2015 Science Fair Opens For Submissions Today
Feb 18, 8:36PM
Google is back with its annual Science Fair, with the fifth consecutive year of the program opening the door for submission today. The event is run in partnership with Lego Education, National Geographic, Scientific American and Virgin Galactic. It invites any students between 13 and 18 from anywhere in the world to enter submissions online to compete for prizes in a number of categories,… Read MoreBessemer Looks Forward With New $1.6B Fund
Feb 18, 8:00PM
Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) announced its latest investment fund today with $1.6B in investments. It has dubbed it BVP IX. It follows a highly successful BVP VIII. Byron Deeter, a partner at BVP says this is just part of the normal fundraising cycle for the company. They are reaching the end of the previous cycle when they launched BVP VIII, and as the funds from that round have… Read MoreIndiegogo Testing Way To Refund Money If Crowdfunded Project Does Not Ship
Feb 18, 7:32PM
Indiegogo is trying to answer crowdfunding’s biggest question: How do you get your money back if the product never materializes? Called Perk Insurance, the optional coverage will allow backers to receive a full refund — minus the cost of the insurance — if the perk is not delivered within a specified period of time after the estimated delivery date. Read MoreThis Back To The Future iPhone Case Is Totally Ridiculous And I Want One
Feb 18, 7:17PM
We’ve made it! 2015. The year of hoverboards and self-tying shoes, according to Back To The Future. So far, we have neither of those things. But we do have this absolutely ridiculous iPhone case modeled after Doc Brown’s DeLorean, so we’ve got that going for us. Read MoreIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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